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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
[Docket ID ED–2023–IES–0011]
Request for Information on Topics To
Address via the National Center for
Education Research’s R&D Centers
Institute of Education Sciences,
Department of Education.
ACTION: Request for information.
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AGENCY:
The National Center for
Education Research (NCER), a center
within the Institute of Education
Sciences (IES), is charged with
sponsoring sustained research that will
lead to the accumulation of knowledge
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and understanding of the key issues
facing education in the 21st century. In
carrying out these activities, NCER is
required to support not less than 8
Research and Development Centers
(R&D Centers) focused on one or more
of 11 specified topics (see the list of
topics included below in the
Background section or see the Education
Sciences Reform Act of 2002 (ESRA)).
The R&D Centers produce and
disseminate rigorous evidence and
products that provide practical
solutions to important educational
problems in the United States. They also
provide national leadership in defining
research and development directions
within their topics. Through this request
for information (RFI), NCER is soliciting
public input as we seek to identify
pressing questions within each of these
broad topic areas that an R&D Center
would be well-suited to address.
DATES: We must receive your comments
by March 6, 2023.
ADDRESSES: Comments must be
submitted via the Federal eRulemaking
Portal at regulations.gov. However, if
you require an accommodation or
cannot otherwise submit your
comments via regulations.gov, please
contact the program contact person
listed under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
CONTACT. The Department will not
accept comments by email or by fax. To
ensure that the Department does not
receive duplicate copies, please submit
your comments only once. Additionally,
please include the Docket ID at the top
of your comments.
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www.regulations.gov to submit your
comments electronically. Information
on using Regulations.gov, including
instructions for accessing agency
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viewing the docket, is available on the
site under the ‘‘FAQ’’ tab.
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do not require, that each respondent
include their name, title, institution or
affiliation, and the name, title, mailing
and email addresses, and telephone
number of a contact person for the
institution or affiliation, if any.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Elizabeth Albro, Commissioner,
National Center for Education Research,
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Institute of Education Sciences, U.S
Department of Education, 400 Maryland
Avenue SW, Washington, DC 20202–
7240. Telephone: (202) 245–8495. You
may also email your questions to
Elizabeth.Albro@ed.gov, but as
described above, comments must be
submitted via the Federal eRulemaking
Portal at regulations.gov.
If you are deaf, hard of hearing, or
have a speech disability and wish to
access telecommunications relay
services, please dial 7–1–1.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
Section 131(b)(1) of ESRA (20 U.S.C.
9531(b)(1)) describes the mission of
NCER, a center within the U.S.
Department of Education’s Institute of
Education Sciences. NCER is directed to
sponsor sustained research that will
lead to the accumulation of knowledge
and understanding of education to—
(A) Ensure that all children have
access to a high-quality education;
(B) Improve student academic
achievement, including through the use
of educational technology;
(C) Close the achievement gap
between high-performing and lowperforming students through the
improvement of teaching and learning
of reading, writing, mathematics,
science, and other academic subjects;
and
(D) Improve access to, and
opportunity for, postsecondary
education.
As part of our mission to support
sustained research, ESRA, sec. 133(c)(1)
(20 U.S.C. 9533(c)(1)), directs NCER to
support not less than 8 R&D Centers and
to assign each center to at least 1 of the
11 topics described in ESRA sec.
133(c)(2). The 11 topics are:
(A) Adult literacy.
(B) Assessment, standards, and
accountability research.
(C) Early childhood development and
education.
(D) English language learners
research.
(E) Improving low achieving schools.
(F) Innovation in education reform.
(G) State and local policy.
(H) Postsecondary education and
training.
(I) Rural education.
(J) Teacher quality.
(K) Reading and literacy.
The duties of R&D Centers are to
address areas of national need, and to
incorporate the potential or existing role
of educational technology, where
appropriate, in achieving the goals of
each center (ESRA, Sec. 133(c)(3)). In
addition, ESRA Sec. 133(3)(7) specifies
that research conducted by the R&D
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Centers is to be disaggregated by age,
race, gender, and socioeconomic
background to the extent feasible. ESRA
Sec. 133(c)(4) specifies that support for
a national research and development
center shall be for a period of not more
than 5 years.
Currently, NCER is supporting R&D
Centers and Research Networks that
focus on the topics of adult literacy,
English language learners research,
innovation in education reform, State
and local policy, postsecondary
education and training, rural education,
teacher quality, and reading and
literacy. NCER can support additional
R&D Centers addressing different
research questions within these same
topics as well as R&D Centers
addressing other topics from the list of
11, above. Information about NCER’s
active and completed R&D Centers is
available here: https://ies.ed.gov/ncer/
research/randdCenters.asp.
Through this RFI, we seek public
comment and input on the highest
priority research questions within each
of the 11 topics that could be addressed
by new R&D Centers, as outlined in the
Solicitation of Comments section.
This is a request for information only.
This RFI is not a request for proposals
(RFP) or a promise to issue an RFP or
a notice inviting applications (NIA).
This RFI does not commit the
Department to contract for any supply
or service whatsoever. Further, we are
not seeking proposals and will not
accept unsolicited proposals for R&D
Centers. The Department will not pay
for any information or administrative
costs that you may incur in responding
to this RFI. The documents and
information submitted in response to
this RFI will not be returned.
We will review every comment, and
the comments in response to this RFI
will be publicly available on the Federal
eRulemaking Portal at
www.regulations.gov. Please note that
IES will not directly respond to
comments.
Solicitation of Comments
We encourage the public, particularly
those who are aware of key research
questions in any of the 11 topic areas,
to address the following questions in
their comments:
(1) Of the 11 topics, which three are
the most pressing to invest in now, and
why?
(2) Within the three topics identified
in response to item (1), on what priority
research questions could a new R&D
Center focus over a 5-year project
period?
(3) How would your proposed
research questions advance the core
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mission of NCER’s program of research,
described in the background section of
this document?
(4) Are the identified priority research
questions likely to yield any products or
insights that could be readily shared
and taken up by practitioners and
policymakers?
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Mark Schneider,
Director, Institute of Education Sciences.
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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
[Docket ID ED-2023-IES-0011]
Request for Information on Topics To Address via the National
Center for Education Research's R&D Centers
AGENCY: Institute of Education Sciences, Department of Education.
ACTION: Request for information.
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SUMMARY: The National Center for Education Research (NCER), a center
within the Institute of Education Sciences (IES), is charged with
sponsoring sustained research that will lead to the accumulation of
knowledge and understanding of the key issues facing education in the
21st century. In carrying out these activities, NCER is required to
support not less than 8 Research and Development Centers (R&D Centers)
focused on one or more of 11 specified topics (see the list of topics
included below in the Background section or see the Education Sciences
Reform Act of 2002 (ESRA)). The R&D Centers produce and disseminate
rigorous evidence and products that provide practical solutions to
important educational problems in the United States. They also provide
national leadership in defining research and development directions
within their topics. Through this request for information (RFI), NCER
is soliciting public input as we seek to identify pressing questions
within each of these broad topic areas that an R&D Center would be
well-suited to address.
DATES: We must receive your comments by March 6, 2023.
ADDRESSES: Comments must be submitted via the Federal eRulemaking
Portal at regulations.gov. However, if you require an accommodation or
cannot otherwise submit your comments via regulations.gov, please
contact the program contact person listed under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
CONTACT. The Department will not accept comments by email or by fax. To
ensure that the Department does not receive duplicate copies, please
submit your comments only once. Additionally, please include the Docket
ID at the top of your comments.
Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to www.regulations.gov to submit
your comments electronically. Information on using Regulations.gov,
including instructions for accessing agency documents, submitting
comments, and viewing the docket, is available on the site under the
``FAQ'' tab.
Privacy Note: The Department's policy for comments received from
members of the public is to make these submissions available for public
viewing in their entirety on the Federal eRulemaking Portal at
www.regulations.gov. Therefore, commenters should be careful to include
in their comments only information that they wish to make publicly
available. We encourage, but do not require, that each respondent
include their name, title, institution or affiliation, and the name,
title, mailing and email addresses, and telephone number of a contact
person for the institution or affiliation, if any.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Elizabeth Albro, Commissioner,
National Center for Education Research, Institute of Education
Sciences, U.S Department of Education, 400 Maryland Avenue SW,
Washington, DC 20202-7240. Telephone: (202) 245-8495. You may also
email your questions to [email protected], but as described above,
comments must be submitted via the Federal eRulemaking Portal at
regulations.gov.
If you are deaf, hard of hearing, or have a speech disability and
wish to access telecommunications relay services, please dial 7-1-1.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
Section 131(b)(1) of ESRA (20 U.S.C. 9531(b)(1)) describes the
mission of NCER, a center within the U.S. Department of Education's
Institute of Education Sciences. NCER is directed to sponsor sustained
research that will lead to the accumulation of knowledge and
understanding of education to--
(A) Ensure that all children have access to a high-quality
education;
(B) Improve student academic achievement, including through the use
of educational technology;
(C) Close the achievement gap between high-performing and low-
performing students through the improvement of teaching and learning of
reading, writing, mathematics, science, and other academic subjects;
and
(D) Improve access to, and opportunity for, postsecondary
education.
As part of our mission to support sustained research, ESRA, sec.
133(c)(1) (20 U.S.C. 9533(c)(1)), directs NCER to support not less than
8 R&D Centers and to assign each center to at least 1 of the 11 topics
described in ESRA sec. 133(c)(2). The 11 topics are:
(A) Adult literacy.
(B) Assessment, standards, and accountability research.
(C) Early childhood development and education.
(D) English language learners research.
(E) Improving low achieving schools.
(F) Innovation in education reform.
(G) State and local policy.
(H) Postsecondary education and training.
(I) Rural education.
(J) Teacher quality.
(K) Reading and literacy.
The duties of R&D Centers are to address areas of national need,
and to incorporate the potential or existing role of educational
technology, where appropriate, in achieving the goals of each center
(ESRA, Sec. 133(c)(3)). In addition, ESRA Sec. 133(3)(7) specifies that
research conducted by the R&D
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Centers is to be disaggregated by age, race, gender, and socioeconomic
background to the extent feasible. ESRA Sec. 133(c)(4) specifies that
support for a national research and development center shall be for a
period of not more than 5 years.
Currently, NCER is supporting R&D Centers and Research Networks
that focus on the topics of adult literacy, English language learners
research, innovation in education reform, State and local policy,
postsecondary education and training, rural education, teacher quality,
and reading and literacy. NCER can support additional R&D Centers
addressing different research questions within these same topics as
well as R&D Centers addressing other topics from the list of 11, above.
Information about NCER's active and completed R&D Centers is available
here: https://ies.ed.gov/ncer/research/randdCenters.asp.
Through this RFI, we seek public comment and input on the highest
priority research questions within each of the 11 topics that could be
addressed by new R&D Centers, as outlined in the Solicitation of
Comments section.
This is a request for information only. This RFI is not a request
for proposals (RFP) or a promise to issue an RFP or a notice inviting
applications (NIA). This RFI does not commit the Department to contract
for any supply or service whatsoever. Further, we are not seeking
proposals and will not accept unsolicited proposals for R&D Centers.
The Department will not pay for any information or administrative costs
that you may incur in responding to this RFI. The documents and
information submitted in response to this RFI will not be returned.
We will review every comment, and the comments in response to this
RFI will be publicly available on the Federal eRulemaking Portal at
www.regulations.gov. Please note that IES will not directly respond to
comments.
Solicitation of Comments
We encourage the public, particularly those who are aware of key
research questions in any of the 11 topic areas, to address the
following questions in their comments:
(1) Of the 11 topics, which three are the most pressing to invest
in now, and why?
(2) Within the three topics identified in response to item (1), on
what priority research questions could a new R&D Center focus over a 5-
year project period?
(3) How would your proposed research questions advance the core
mission of NCER's program of research, described in the background
section of this document?
(4) Are the identified priority research questions likely to yield
any products or insights that could be readily shared and taken up by
practitioners and policymakers?
Accessible Format: By request to the program contact person listed
under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT, individuals with disabilities
can obtain this document in an accessible format. The Department will
provide the requestor with an accessible format that may include Rich
Text Format (RTF) or text format (txt), a thumb drive, an MP3 file,
braille, large print, audiotape, or compact disc, or other accessible
format.
Electronic Access to This Document: The official version of this
document is the document published in the Federal Register. You may
access the official edition of the Federal Register and the Code of
Federal Regulations at www.govinfo.gov. At this site you can view this
document, as well as all other documents of this Department published
in the Federal Register, in text or Portable Document Format (PDF). To
use PDF you must have Adobe Acrobat Reader, which is available free at
the site.
You may also access documents of the Department published in the
Federal Register by using the article search feature at
www.federalregister.gov. Specifically, through the advanced search
feature at this site, you can limit your search to documents published
by the Department.
Mark Schneider,
Director, Institute of Education Sciences.
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